bus: arm-ccn: Do not group CCN events with other PMUs
authorPawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Fri, 17 Apr 2015 11:15:56 +0000 (12:15 +0100)
committerPawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Fri, 1 May 2015 16:51:04 +0000 (17:51 +0100)
Groups must not mix events from different PMUs (software events are
allowed). Unfortunately the core does not ensures that, so it is
necessary to validate the group at the PMU driver level.

Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
drivers/bus/arm-ccn.c

index 572360f1f493edff8ad0572aa2d45ee17e0693ea..fb589d4dbaf6c143d6bdfb710854ffe883793052 100644 (file)
@@ -660,6 +660,7 @@ static int arm_ccn_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
        int valid, bit;
        struct arm_ccn_component *source;
        int i;
+       struct perf_event *sibling;
 
        if (event->attr.type != event->pmu->type)
                return -ENOENT;
@@ -762,6 +763,21 @@ static int arm_ccn_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
                                node_xp, type, port);
        }
 
+       /*
+        * We must NOT create groups containing mixed PMUs, although software
+        * events are acceptable (for example to create a CCN group
+        * periodically read when a hrtimer aka cpu-clock leader triggers).
+        */
+       if (event->group_leader->pmu != event->pmu &&
+                       !is_software_event(event->group_leader))
+               return -EINVAL;
+
+       list_for_each_entry(sibling, &event->group_leader->sibling_list,
+                       group_entry)
+               if (sibling->pmu != event->pmu &&
+                               !is_software_event(sibling))
+                       return -EINVAL;
+
        /* Allocate the cycle counter */
        if (type == CCN_TYPE_CYCLES) {
                if (test_and_set_bit(CCN_IDX_PMU_CYCLE_COUNTER,